Marriage and Family
Kroeber married Henrietta Rothschild in 1906. She contracted tuberculosis (TB) and died in 1913, after several years of illness.
In 1926 he married again, to Theodora Kraków Brown, a widow whom he met as a student in one of his graduate seminars. They had two children: Karl Kroeber, an anthropologist, and the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. In addition, Alfred adopted Theodora's sons by her first marriage, Ted and Clifton Brown, who took his surname.
In 2003, the stepbrothers Clifton and Karl Kroeber published a book of essays on Ishi's story, which they co-edited, called, Ishi in Three Centuries. This is the first scholarly book on Ishi to contain essays by Native American writers and academics.
Alfred Kroeber died in Paris on October 5, 1960.
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